Example sentences of "at [adv] for the first " in BNC.
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1 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
2 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |
3 | Only a few , largely of the younger members , consider that at least for the first few years after an election , the House as a whole should keep a wary eye on the government and seek to support or influence its policy irrespective of the line taken by the official Opposition . |
4 | The imaginary war , at least for the first 20 years after the war , reproduced the solutions of the second world war . |
5 | Consequently , they are best advised at least for the first two years of recovery to concentrate primarily on just the one relevant Anonymous Fellowship . |
6 | At least for the first year ( 1st April 1993–31st March 1994 ) , the vast majority of residential care places in voluntary and private sector residential and nursing homes , and registered supported accommodation , will be purchased on an individual place-by-place basis for each user . |
7 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
8 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
9 | My arrival put paid to her travels — at least for the first couple of years . ’ |
10 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
11 | For some sections of the labour force , prosperous years which had begun in the 1780s continued at least for the first part of the war . |